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...ba href=/anxiety/a/b among investors that she might againchallenge the legality of privatisations by the pro-Moscow administration before the 2004 Orange revolution brought President Viktor Yushchenko to power.Investors were dismayed last year when Ms Tymoshenko, who served as Mr Yushchenko's prime minister until she was sacked in September, pursued populist economic policies including attempts to reallocate privatised assets and attacks on business oligarchs.Ms Tymoshenko's latest promises will not in themselves assuage businesspeople's concerns.

Thereis considerable worry in Kiev about how she can reconcile her business-friendly remarks with campaign promises to boost social spending and attacks on big business.Ms Tymoshenko said the government should not try to reverse privatisations.

"My name was absolutely artificially connected with reprivatisation in order to discredit me," she said."The main task to bring foreign investment is to make all business equal before the law and no business more equal [than others]."Ms Tymoshenko was speaking as the last votes were counted in an election in which her bloc emerged as the largest of the three pro-west "Orange" parties, ahead of Mr Yushchenko's Our Ukraine and the much smaller Socialist grouping.Together, the three parties will take about 54 per cent of parliament's seats, ahead of Viktor Yanukovich, the former pro-Russia prime minister, whose Regions party will have about 41 per cent.Mr Yushchenko, who has hinted he could try to block Ms T...

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In all the wells tested, there are no significant exceedances, so no concern in the immediate area of the landfill." Szepatowski responded, "I'm just shocked.

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." Conducting the meeting in the absence of Council President David Long, Council Vice President Julio DiGiando, interrupted and urged her to wait to talk about it at the next council meeting.

Keiser reported that the latest regularly scheduled quarterly report of monitoring wells at the former landfill itself, showed "no exceedances and some fluctuations, seasonal variations, that are not significant and all within safe drinking water standards." Councilman Michael Schnack referred to some trends cited in the report.

Keiser said the "trends are important but not significant." Council role DiGiando gave a detailed commentary on the concerns of townspeople that councilors had not responded to public concerns as evidenced at the March 13 meeting, which deteriorated into expressions of bitterness over the landfill and highway barn issues.

DiGiando said this week he sensed that some people thought "we're trying to do something harmful." He suggested that impression was created by the conflicts in scientific claims between GZAand MacTech, consultants for the North End Concerned Citizens.

He said the council is trying to get to facts and awaiting the findings of the DEM.

"We are not trying to duck it.

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